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DAYTON (AP) — A man paroled from a Georgia murder conviction has been charged with attempted
murder for allegedly hitting a 73-year-old woman with a baseball bat in southwestern Ohio.

Montgomery County’s prosecutor said John Mason, 48, was indicted on Friday on the
attempted-murder charge and two counts of felonious assault. Prosecutor Mat Heck Jr. said Mason
allegedly struck the woman in the head on Aug. 8 with a wooden bat at the Huber Heights home where
he lived with the woman and her daughter. The woman will require a prosthetic eye.

The prosecutor said Mason was convicted in Georgia in 1987 of charges including murder.

Court records do not list an attorney for Mason.

The prosecutor said Mason told an emergency dispatcher that he struck the woman and wanted to
return to prison.